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Boston Starts Outreach For Hyde Park Ave. Bus and Bike Improvements
Planners from the City of Boston and the MBTA held their first open house on Tuesday evening in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood to solicit ideas for "complete streets" and transit-priority improvements to Hyde Park Avenue, a major transit corridor and one of the only north-south routes into the neighborhoods of Hyde Park and Readville.
February 17, 2020
Plans For Somerville’s Deadliest Intersection Make Little Effort To Tame Violent Driving
A $5 million safety improvement project for the dangerous intersection of Mystic Avenue and McGrath Highway will provide basic accessibility upgrades to sidewalks and crosswalks, but largely will not address the reckless, high-speed driving behavior that killed two people in hit-and-run crashes in the area over the past year, according to plans presented by MassDOT officials Wednesday evening.
February 13, 2020
Where Should Massachusetts’s Next Car-Free Street Be?
Last year, New York City banned cars on 14th Street; this month, San Francisco did it on Market Street. The results have been impressive and politically popular, as traffic has seemingly vanished without a trace.
February 10, 2020
San Francisco Gears Up for ‘Car-Free’ Market Street
Next week, on Wed., Jan. 29, private cars will be banned from Market Street, one of the principal streets in downtown San Francisco.
January 28, 2020
Fees On Uber and Lyft Accelerate Local Sustainable Transport Projects
Fees on Silicon Valley's double-parking, bike lane-blocking drivers are already funding important "complete streets" projects throughout the Boston region.
January 27, 2020
Baker Budget Portends Changes For Boston’s Waterfront ‘Parkways’
Under the Governor's budget proposal released Wednesday, ownership of four Department of Parks and Recreation roads - Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road, Day Boulevard and Morrissey Boulevard - would be transferred to MassDOT.
January 23, 2020
City Plans To Clone Roslindale’s Washington Street Bus Lane
An outbound bus-only lane to match the existing inbound lane is being planned for mid-2020.
January 21, 2020
Suffolk Downs Plan: Transit Upgrades, Bikeways – And Up To 6,760 More Parking Spaces For East Boston
At a public meeting Wednesday evening, developers from the HYM Investment Group announced that they hope to secure approvals next month for a massive development of Suffolk Downs, a former horse racetrack that straddles the Boston-Revere border adjacent to two Blue Line stations.
January 9, 2020
Our Top 10 Stories of 2019
Several of our top stories from 2019 cover key debates – some of which have come to positive resolutions, some of which remain undecided – that illustrate how successful advocates can be when we come together and demand better from our political leadership.
December 27, 2019
Boston Officials Pitch New Bus-Priority Corridor Between North Station and Seaport
The proposed "Center City Link" bus route would build a corridor of bus-priority infrastructure to link North Station, South Station, and the Seaport District.
December 12, 2019
